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	Marie Byrd Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marie Byrd Land formerly hosted the Operation Deep Freeze base Byrd Station (NBY), begining in 1957.
		Byrd Station provided a template for the doomed Antarctic base in the horror movie John Carpenter's The Thing.
		In 1998-99, a camp was operated at the Ford Ranges (FRD) in western Marie Byrd Land, supporting a part of a USAP airborne survey intiatated by UCSB and operated by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marie_Byrd_Land (454 words)

	Encyclopedia: Marie Byrd Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Marie Byrd Land, area of W Antarctica, E of the Ross Shelf Ice and the Ross Sea and S of the Amundsen Sea; the Ford Ranges lie in the northwest part.
		Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957), American explorer, author, aviator, and naval officer, known for leading several air and land expeditions to Antarctica, and for discoveries there.
		Byrd received the Medal of Honor for being the first person to fly over the North Pole; he made the flight with American aviator Floyd Bennett; however, there is some evidence suggesting that he and Bennett may not have reached the pole.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marie-Byrd-Land (925 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Marie Byrd Land
		Ross Sea, southern extension of the Pacific Ocean, indenting the coast of Antarctica, between Victoria Land on the west and Marie Byrd Land on the...
		Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957), American explorer, author, aviator, and naval officer, known for leading several air and land expeditions to...
		King Edward VII Peninsula, tract of land at latitude 78° south at the northeast end of the Ross Sea, in the Byrd-Ellsworth sector, on the continent...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Marie_Byrd_Land.html (159 words)

	UCSB Geological Sciences
		This region and western Marie Byrd Land are at the eastern limit of the Ross Sea rift, part of the West Antarctic rift system, one of the larger regions of extended crust in the world.
		The Ross Sea continental shelf west of Cape Colbeck and the Edward VII Peninsula in western Marie Byrd Land was investigated using marine geophysics during cruise 9601 of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer.
		Modeling of marine, land, and airborne gravity data infer that the crust thins by 6 to 8 km from the Phillips Mountains southwest to the eastern Ross Sea with half of the thinning in the northern Ford Ranges and half between the southwest side of the Edward VII Peninsula and the Ross Sea continental shelf.
	www.geol.ucsb.edu /faculty/luyendyk/RossandwMBL/RossandwMBL.html (2240 words)

	Marie Byrd Land -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Byrd, Richard E. A 20th-century pioneer aviator and polar explorer, Richard E. Byrd first won fame with his long-distance flights in the Arctic and over the Atlantic.
		The surface of the Earth—apart from oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers—is land.
		Land, Edwin H. The inventor of instant photography, in the form of the Polaroid Land camera, was Edwin H. Land.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050914 (829 words)

	Geology and Geophysics of Marie Byrd Land, Northern Victoria Land, and Oates Coast. GANOVEX VII. Estrada, Solveig ...
		Geology and Geophysics of Marie Byrd Land, Northern Victoria Land, and Oates Coast.
		Geological and geophysical investigations were carried out on both sides of the Ross Sea: on King Edward VII Peninsula, northwestern Marie Byrd Land, in the east, and in northern Victoria Land and the adjacent Oates Coast in the west.
		Apatite fission-track data from the Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains on Edward VII Peninsula indicate that the thermal history of the eastern rift flank of northern Victoria Land was different from that of the western rift shoulder.
	www.schweizerbart.de /pubs/books/bgr/geologisch-186029500-desc.html (439 words)

	Flight of the Puckered Penguins - Chapter 12
		During the first few flights along the trail it seemed strange to land at a location where the surface was featureless and where there was no object in sight except a lone fuel tank that we had come to fill.
		Like future landings on the Moon nothing we could see bore any resemblance to things we saw from the air in other parts of the world and the loneliness of a featureless space was oppressive.
		Sometimes these sastrugi were large enough making our landings and takeoffs were quite rough so we had to select landing directions so as to minimize the wear and tear on our landing gear and skis as well as in consideration of the wind direction.
	www.anta.canterbury.ac.nz /resources/flight/ch12.html (2657 words)

	Antarctica - Crystalinks
		Life that depends completely on the land is limited to microscopic life in summer meltwater ponds, tiny wingless insects living in patches of moss and lichens, and two types of flowering plants (both in the Antarctic Peninsula).
		Birds and seals that spend part of their time on land (e.g., emperor and Adélie penguins and the brown skuathe most southerly bird and a notorious predatorand Weddell, crabeater, and Ross seals) are dependent on the surrounding sea for food.
		A Norwegian captain, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, explored (1929-30) the coast of E Antarctica from Enderby Land to Coats Land; the area was later claimed by Norway as Queen Maud Land.
	www.crystalinks.com /antarctica.html (3379 words)

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		Elevations determined by altimeter traverse based on Byrd Station elevation of 1530 meters (The altimetry elevations have been adjusted to agree with the elevations determined from the Marie Byrd Land Electronic Traverse of 1966-67-68).
		Mile 271 is tied to the Marie Byrd Land Electronic Traverse of 1966-67-68 field seasons.
		The Marie Byrd Land Electronic Traverse was tied to sea-level by triangulation from the Alexander Mountains in the Edward VII Peninsula area, Grant Island on the western end of the Getz Ice Shelf and Wright Island on the eastern end of the Getz Ice Shelf.
	usarc.usgs.gov /antarctic_ground_control/mt_sidley/control/m271.htm (242 words)

	Journal of the Geological Society: Mantle plumes and Antarctica-New Zealand rifting: Evidence from mid-Cretaceous mafic ...
		The aim of this paper is to consider all available evidence for the existence of mantle plumes beneath the Marie Byrd Land margin, and the role (active or passive) that a possible plume may have played at the time of New Zealand rifting.
		In Marie Byrd Land a widespread group of Cretaceous (124-95 Ma) calc-alkalic, I-type granodiorite plutons were intruded into basement rocks.
		In western Marie Byrd Land, a diverse suite of silicic rocks, generally A-type granitoids (emplaced at 95-102 Ma), and including syenites and peralkaline granitoids, and mafic rocks, dominantly dykes, described in detail below, followed the calc-alkaline granodiorites, along a 500 km long sector of the Saunders-Ruppert Hobbs coasts (Fig.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3721/is_199907/ai_n8863312 (1389 words)

	GPS Measurement of Tectonic Deformation and Isostatic Rebound in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
		GPS Measurement of Tectonic Deformation and Isostatic Rebound in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
		The Ross embayment and western Marie Byrd Land are part of the West Antarctic rift system.
		We recovered data for the sites in Marie Byrd Land during the 1998–1999 season and additional data in November 1999, November 2000, and January 2001.
	www.geology.ohio-state.edu /agg-group/siena/gps/Donnellan.htm (311 words)

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		Solar position at Mile 747 is the horizontal datum used to determine the horizontal positions of the intersected map control points in the Flood Range and surrounding area (Adjusted to Marie Byrd Land Electronic Traverse of 1966-67-68).
		Located in Marie Byrd Land approximately 102 km SE of Mount Berlin and 48 km S. of Mount Bursey, unmonumented snow station.
		Miles 258, 603, 711.5, and 890 are tied to the Marie Byrd Land Electronic Traverse of 1966-67-68 field seasons.
	usarc.usgs.gov /antarctic_ground_control/mt_berlin/control/m747.htm (287 words)

	Ross Sea - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.
		The southernmost part of the Ross Sea is Gould Coast, which is approximately two hundred miles from the Geographic South Pole.
		All land masses in the Ross Sea are claimed by Britain and New Zealand to fall under the jurisdiction of the Ross Dependency, but most non-Commonwealth nations don't recognize this claim.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Ross_Sea (193 words)

	Byrd's South Pole Flight: Selected Bibliography
		Byrd, Richard E. Conquest of Antarctica by air.
		Byrd, Richard E. Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole; first edition.
		Saunders, Harold E. The flight of Admiral Byrd to the South Pole and the exploration of Marie Byrd Land.
	library.osu.edu /sites/archives/polar/flightexhibit/bibliography.htm (385 words)

	The Marie Byrd Land Dome: Volcanic and Uplift History, 34 Ma to Present
		A second pattern, which involves ages of basalts resting on the WAES compared with their elevations, provides evidence that volcanic activity was accompanied by steady uplift, at a rate of ~105-122 m/my, between 8 Ma and 25 Ma.
		Recent results from a study of the Dorrel Rock gabbro, in eastern MBL (Rocchi et al., in prep.) provide robust data for a 34 Ma age for this plutonic body, together with evidence that suggests mainly late Oligocene uplift and exhumation.
		Petrologic studies suggests further, that the evolution from oversaturated to highly undersaturated products, observed in volcanoes of both basaltic and felsic compositions, reflects the deepening and increasing efficiency of a complex volcanic plumbing system that is evolving during dome growth (LeMasurier et al., in review).
	www.geology.ohio-state.edu /agg-group/siena/geology/Le_Masurier.htm (335 words)

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		The bay was mapped in detail by an ANARE party landed by aircraft in 1956 and another landed by launch from explorer who was first to reach the South Pole.
		The group is bounded on the N and E by the Pacific Ocean, on the W by Lillie Glacier, and on the S by Ebbe Glacier and Dennistoun Glacier.
		(Graham Land is now restricted to that part of Antarctic Peninsula northward of a line between Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz; Palmer Land to the part southward of that line.) Antarctic Point 00000490 5404S 03658W Point which marks the W side of the entrance to Antarctic Bay on the N coast of South Georgia.
	geonames.usgs.gov /stategaz/ANTARCTICA.TXT (21794 words)

	UPLIFT AND EROSION HISTORY IN MARIE BYRD LAND AS A KEY TO POSSIBLE MID-CENOZOIC PLATE MOTION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Throughout the past 25 m.y., volcanism along the coast of Marie Byrd Land (MBL) has been accompanied by uplift of a broad dome, which now stands ~3 km a.s.l.
		The Dorrel Rock gabbro (DR) is exposed on the eastern flank of the MBL dome, ~470km east of the dome crest, which is the center of Neogene uplift.
		The implication of this history is that the locus of uplift shifted westward, from DR to the crest of the MBL dome sometime before 25 Ma, perhaps representing plate motion of West Antarctica over a plume head in MBL.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_40258.htm (466 words)

	Marie Byrd Land - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Marie Byrd Land - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Due to its relative inhospitableness, even by Antarctic standards, most of Marie Byrd Land has not been claimed by any sovereign nation, making it by far the largest single unclaimed territory on Earth.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Marie Byrd Land contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Marie_Byrd_Land (183 words)

	Glacial geology of Northern and Central Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land
		Therefore, deglaciation of summit plateaus, valley downcutting and topographic uplift occurred during the mid Miocene in northern Victoria Land and not earlier than the mid Pliocene in central Victoria Land.
		In northern Victoria Land ice flow directions changed markedly from the time a regional ice sheet occupied the level of the highest summits to the present condition with summits rising up to 800 above the valley glaciers.
		In central Victoria Land the oldest documented ice flow direction occupying the summit erosion surface prior to incision was SW-NE, draining the East Antarctic Ice Sheet along an outlet glacier at least ten times as wide as the present E-W flowing David Glacier.
	gcmd.nasa.gov /records/GCMD_NL_ANTARCTIC_GLACIAL_GEOLOGY.html (881 words)

	Petrography of rocks from mountains in Marie Byrd Land, west Antarctica -- Doumani and Ehlers 73 (7): 877 -- GSA ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Petrography of rocks from mountains in Marie Byrd Land, west Antarctica -- Doumani and Ehlers 73 (7): 877 -- GSA Bulletin
		Petrography of rocks from mountains in Marie Byrd Land, west Antarctica
		"Geological observations made in Marie Byrd Land, west Antarctica, during 1959-1960, show that the region is dominated by extinct volcanoes in the form of isolated nunataks projecting through the ice cap.
	bulletin.geoscienceworld.org /cgi/content/abstract/73/7/877 (129 words)

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		The Ford Ranges of western Marie Byrd Land (MBL) form a block-faulted topography marked by isolated summit plateaus and scattered outcrops of late Cenozoic volcanic rocks.
		Present mountain topography in western MBL may be a result of Cenozoic extension in the eastern Ross Sea rift (Behrendt et al.
		Luyendyk, B.P.; Smith, C.H.; and van der Wateren, F.M., 1994, Glaciation, block faulting, and volcanism in western Marie Byrd Land, Terra Antartica, v.
	igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov /wais/pastmeetings/abstracts97/siddoway.html (491 words)

	BEDMAP ICE THICKNESS METADATA SUMMARY
		US seismic reflection shooting, Marie Byrd Land, Ellsworth Land and the Horlick Mountains at 30 nautical mile (55.5km) intervals, during three traverses in West Antarctica between January 1957 and January 1959.
		JARE 26 oversnow traverse in East Queen Maud Land toward the inland plateaux and Sor Rondane Mountains, 1985-86.
		BAS geophysical expedition in Ellsworth Land and James Ross Island in the 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons.
	www.nerc-bas.ac.uk /public/aedc/bedmap/database/metadata.html (2660 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, The United States Antarctic Research Report to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Gondwanaland reconstructions, Marie Byrd Land is juxtaposed with portions of New Zealand and the Campbell Plateau.
		Although there are many geologic parallels between New Zealand and Marie Byrd Land, it is unclear whether these similarities indicate that the two regions were part of the same unit.
		Paleomagnetic data for the region do indicate that Marie Byrd Land was at a higher latitude about 100 million years ago and that since this time it has rotated independently of East and West Antarctica.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309046262/html/48.html (908 words)

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		At least four large Marie Byrd Land (MBL) subaerial stratovolcanoes, Mt. Berlin, Mt. Takahe, Mt. Siple, and Mt. Waesche, have been active in the Late Quaternary and are potential sources of tephra in two new ice cores that are planned for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAISCORES).
		In this paper, we present a precise 40Ar/39Ar tephrochronology of Late Pleistocene volcanism in MBL with new correlations to the Byrd ice core.
		Also plotted are estimated ice-flow model ages of coarse tephra layers in Byrd ice core and age and geochemical correlations between Byrd core tephras and Marie Byrd Land source volcanoes.
	igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov /wais/pastmeetings/abstracts96/wilch.html (958 words)

	West Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Antarctica, or Lesser Antarctica (79° S 100° W) is one of the two major regions of Antarctica, lying on the Pacific Ocean side of the Transantarctic Mountains and comprising Marie Byrd Land, Ellsworth Land, and Antarctic Peninsula.
		It is separated from the main land mass of the continent by the Ross Sea and Weddell Sea, and resembles a giant peninsula that stretches roughly from the South Pole towards the southern tip of South America.
		The name has existed more than 90 years (Balch, 1902; Nordenskjold, 1905), but its greatest use followed the International Geophysical Year (1957-58) and explorations disclosing that the Transantarctic Mountains provide a useful regional separation of West Antarctica and East Antarctica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Antarctica (200 words)

	Norwegian Inventions, Discoveries and Awards
		He gave his name to a sea, the arm of the South Pacific West Antarctica off Marie Byrd Land, and to Amundsen Gulf, the southeastern extension of the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean, and named the subdivision of the Transantarctic Mountains of central Antarctica for Queen Maud Mountains after the Norwegian Queen.
		If Peary's claims are discredited, then Richard Byrd, who claimed to have flown over the pole in his Fokker monoplane in May 1926, must be next in line for the title of first at the pole.
		If the claims of both Peary and Byrd are discredited, or at least not sufficiently proven, then Amundsen must be the only contender for the title of first man at both poles.
	www.cyberclip.com /Katrine/NorwayInfo/NorgeInv.html (1376 words)

	Richard E. Byrd -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		A 20th-century pioneer aviator and polar explorer, Richard E. Byrd first won fame with his long-distance flights in the Arctic and over the Atlantic.
		Byrd, Richard E. naval officer, pioneer aviator, and polar explorer best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes and other modern technical resources.
		Kongs Fjord is an arm of the Arctic Ocean measuring 16 miles (26 km) long and ranging in width from 4 to 9 miles (6 to 14 km).
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273425 (673 words)

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